Tag: percentage depletion

  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 13 May 21

More than 50 Lawmakers Urge Pelosi to Consider Impacts When Targeting Tax Treatment of O&G Industry

Today Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Whip Steve Scalise and more than 50 other lawmakers wrote to Speaker Pelosi on tax treatment of the oil and natural gas industry.“It’s one thing for policies to accelerate investment activity or production of certain products, but it is an entirely different matter to write laws that would punish a particular industry, especially one that is so fundamental to our economic growth and national […]

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 13 May 21

House Republicans Letter to Speaker Pelosi on Industry Tax Provisions

“It’s one thing for policies to accelerate investment activity or production of certain products, but it is an entirely different matter to write laws that would punish a particular industry, especially one that is so fundamental to our economic growth and national security.”

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 27 Apr 21

IPAA: Testimony for Senate Committee on Finance hearing on “Climate Challenges: The Tax Code’s Role in Creating American Jobs, Achieving Energy Independence, and Providing Consumers with Affordable, Clean Energy.”

“…Oil and natural gas tax policies will continue to draw attacks from those anti-oil and natural gas factions that want to cripple American production. Much of the rhetoric surrounding these attacks will hide behind the red herring of “tax subsidies for Big Oil” when the reality is that the tax provisions are not “subsidies’ but […]

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 21 Apr 21

Senate Finance Committee Bill Would Eliminate Expensing of IDCs, Percentage Depletion, EOR credits and more

Today, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 24 colleagues introduced the Clean Energy for America Act, legislation “to overhaul the federal energy tax code, create jobs and combat climate change.”According the Senators, “the current system of energy incentives is overly complex and far less effective than it should be, with more than 40 different energy tax incentives, including permanent subsidies for Big Oil… The Clean […]

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 26 Sep 14

Senate Finance Committee Talks Energy Taxes

This month, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the U.S. tax code as it pertains to American energy development, including the role and future of certain provisions that impact America’s independent oil and natural gas producers. Present at the hearing was the Honorable Don Nickles, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1981 […]

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 12 Jun 14

Washington Times (Op-Ed): Unfair efforts to punish the oil industry with taxes

The small and independent energy companies that have driven welcome developments such as the shale-gas boom in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arkansas and elsewhere could be hit hard, too. Various proposals to alter percentage depletion and intangible drilling cost write-offs, tax-law sections that have equivalents in many other industries, are of special concern to them.

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 6 May 14

Journal Record (Op-Ed): Former U.S. Rep. Martin Frost of Texas Highlights Importance of American Energy

Five years ago, independent oil and gas producers from Oklahoma and nearby states established the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance to make sure the industry has bipartisan support in Congress. The industry has a compelling story that has impressed both Democrats and Republicans. We’ve emphasized how net imports of oil and liquid fuels have fallen from […]

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  • Energy Tax Facts
  • 24 Apr 14

Wichita Eagle (KIOGA’s Ed Cross): Independent producers generating a domestic energy revolution

The American oil and natural gas industry has been a bright spot in our economy, with benefits felt across the nation and here in Kansas. Innovations spurred by small businesses and entrepreneurs have generated a domestic energy revolution. American oil and natural gas production is up because the small businesses that make up the independent […]

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